History of Sloppy Joe’s Sloppy Joe’s…Yesterday The official beginning of Sloppy Joe’s Bar, the famous and infamous Key West saloon, was December 5, 1933–the day Prohibition was repealed. The bar was destined to go through two name changes and a sudden change of location before it would become Sloppy Joe’s, seen by millions of visitors to Florida’s southernmost outpost. Key West being a bastion of free thinkers even in the thirties, Prohibition was looked on as an amusing exercise dreamed up by the government–and Joe Russell was just one of the enterprising individuals who operated illegal speakeasies. Even Ernest Hemingway, who made Key West his home at the time, slipped over to Russell’s on occasion to buy illicit bottles of Scotch, and the two struck up an enduring friendship. When the government’s Great Experiment ended a dismal failure, Joe Russell became a legitimate saloon-keeper-proprietor of the Blind Pig, a droll rundown building that Russell leased for three dollars a week.

The rowdy, come-as-you-are saloon was renamed the Silver Slipper upon the addition of a dance floor, but that didn’t matter–it remained a place of shabby discomfort, good friends, gambling, fifteen-cent whiskey, and ten-cent shots of gin. It was Hemingway, a favorite patron of Russell’s bar from the start, who encouraged its name change to Sloppy Joe’s. The new name was adopted from Jose Garcia Rio Havana club selling liquor and iced seafood. Because the floor was always wet with melted ice, his patrons taunted this Spanish Joe with running a sloppy place… and the name stuck. In its early days in Key West, Sloppy Joe’s boasted several trademark “fixtures” besides Hemingway. There was “Big” Skinner, the hearty black bartender who tipped the scales at 300 pounds and served Sloppy’s customers for more than two decades. Corner of Greene and Duval Street since 1937 Sloppy Joe’s migrated across the street to its present location on May 5, 1937. The move was occasioned by a rent increase that Joe Russell refused to pay: from three dollars a week to a whopping four.

Luckily, the former Victoria Restaurant owned by Spanish emigrant Juan Farto was vacant. Located at the corner of Duval and Greene streets, the Victoria had been built in 1917 and incorporated beautiful Cuban tile work, busily whirring ceiling fans, and jalousie doors. Joe Russell paid $2,500 for it. In true Key West fashion, the bar never actually closed during the transition–customers simply picked up their drinks and carried them, along with every piece of furniture in the place, down the block to 201 Duval Street. Service resumed with barely a blink. The new Sloppy Joe’s boasted the longest bar in town. Behind the bar, in the back room, were gambling and pool tables. Inside the bar hung life-size paintings of fighters on the walls, and adorning one wall was a 119-pound sailfish caught by Hemingway. Skinner had a place of pride above his new long curved bar. The bat Skinner used to control his patrons still hangs on the wall today. Josie Grunts Joe Russell was a charter boat captain, rumrunner, Hemingway’s boat pilot, and the author’s fishing companion for twelve years.

In his company, Papa once caught an astonishing 54 marlin in 115 days. Hemingway called him “Josie Grunts” and used him as the model for Freddy, the owner of Freddy’s Bar and captain of the Queen Conch in To Have and Have Not. Joe Russell died in 1941 of a heart attack. He was 53 years old. The Hemingway Connection When Joe officially opened the bar, Hemingway and his “Mob” of cohorts were enthusiastic regular customers. In fact, the author once called himself a co-owner or silent partner in the enterprise. The “Mob” was comprised of some of the literary lights of the day as well as a variety of famous and infamous local residents: John Dos Pasos, Waldo Pierce, J.B. Sullivan, Hamilton Adams, Captain Eddie Saunders, Henry Strater. They wrangled, drank, and philosophized the days away, never knowing they were building a legend. When Hemingway left Key West in 1939, he left a number of personal effects stored in a house next to Sloppy Joe’s. After the house was sold, the effects were moved into the back room behind the bar at Sloppy’s.

They remained there until 1962, a year after Hemingway’s death, when his widow opened the room and took possession of them. Some of the memorabilia was given to the then-owner of the bar to be displayed. Sloppy Joe’s Today Over the years Sloppy Joe’s, like rare Cuban rum, has gained a richness and flavor while essentially remaining unchanged. The ceiling fans still whisper busily, a little bit wobbly but carrying on. The jalousie doors open on a Duval Street busier than even Hemingway could imagine, yet still bearing the offbeat ambience that prompted him to brand Key West “the St. Tropez of the poor.” The long curving bar wears the scars of generations of visitors and Hemingway aficionados, drawn by the legend and hoping some measure of magic will rub off on them–and it does. Sloppy Joe’s Open 365 days a year, from 9:00am-4:00am daily (noon-4:00am on Sundays). Sloppy Joe’s has three complementary divisions: food , beverage, and retail store. The bar offers generous drinks, live music and dancing.

The quality of the entertainment , showcased on the huge stage facing Duval Street, is exceptional–and ranges from rollicking bluegrass to raucous rock. Just as in Joe Russell’s day, hospitable bartenders welcome patrons at virtually all hours of the day or night. The satisfying large drinks and casual, undemanding atmosphere so successful in Russell’s reign remain–as does the sense, strong as a pulsebeat, that something unusual is always about to happen at Sloppy Joe’s. Sloppy Joe’s Restaurant The menu includes American Caribbean with bar favorites such as burgers, sandwiches and salads. Its offerings are consistently top-quality, consistently satisfying, and just like Key West there are occasional changes, but the tradition of good food always remains. Sloppy Joe’s Retail Store Sloppy Joe’s Retail Store offers a variety of t-shirts, tank tops, sweats, hats, glassware, souvenirs and more. Our merchandise features the internationally recognized Sloppy Joe’s logo. Sloppy Joe’s Annual Papa Look-Alike Contest As in the thirties, Sloppy Joe’s is still a Key West landmark that has become internationally famous and attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors annually.

A major player in the Duval Street scene, the bar continues to support the Hemingway heritage by hosting the outrageous annual Hemingway Look-Alike Contest. The renowned Hemingway Days Festival itself began at Sloppy Joe’s in 1981, ultimately becoming a weeklong celebration honoring Hemingway as both writer and sportsman. Today it incorporates events including an internationally recognized short story competition, street fair, and storytelling contest. In mid-July each year, Sloppy Joe’s is thronged with cheerful bearded men competing for the title of Hemingway Look-Alike, while Hemingway family members judge their worthiness and hundreds of spectators cheer on their favorites. The Look-Alikes have gained such a measure of fame that they have even been featured on Good Morning America. The Look-Alike Society, composed of each year’s contest winners, is now organized as a nonprofit group with educational and environmental concerns. Sloppy Joe’s … A Key West Tradition! Contents taken from “Sloppy Joe’s, The Tradition Continues” by Carol Shaughnessy. Published by The Market Share Company, Inc., Key West, Florida.

(305) 294-5717 • Open Daily 9am – 4am (Noon on Sunday) © 2017 Sloppy Joe's • 201 Duval Street, Key West, FL 33040 • Corner of Duval and Greene since 1937 The Sloppy Joe: An American classic with roots in — Cuba? The Sloppy Joe: An American classic with roots in — Cuba? 1.3k Sloppy Joe, making a one-gallon martini. Image: Underwood and Underwood/Corbis By Sam Laird 2015-05-21 13:10:00 UTC HAVANA, Cuba — Whether cooked up by Mom, ordered at a diner or served in a grade-school cafeteria, few dishes are more quintessential to American childhood than the Sloppy Joe. But the messy sandwich's roots may actually be in a place that is, as they say, downright un-American: Cuba . The story — or at least one story — of how the Sloppy Joe became an American staple begins with a rowdy bar, Havana nights and none other than Ernest Hemingway.

See also: 10 delicious breakfast sandwich combos you have to try Back in 1917, a Spaniard by the name of José Abeal y Otero opened a bar on the corner of Agramonte and Animas streets in Havana, according to brochures at a recently re-launched version of his establishment here in the Cuban capital. José was nicknamed "Joe" by his English-speaking patrons. He wasn't exactly a neat freak, so tipsy regulars took to calling him "Sloppy Joe." They also convinced him to make that the name of his bar, according to company literature on display there today. "Joe," meanwhile, began serving a loose-meat sandwich to go with his bar's libations. Hemingway visited the bar, eventually becoming a common presence there and one of its many celebrity regulars . It's the famous author who is the sandwich's apparent link from Cuba to the United States.

In this May 12, 1959, American novelist Ernest Hemingway, left, speaks with actors Alec Guinness, center, and Noël Coward in Sloppy Joe's Bar during the making of Sir Carol Reed's film version of "Our Man in Havana," based on Graham Greene's best seller, in Havana, Cuba. Image: AP Photo, File/Associated Press In the 1930s, an American named Joe Russell ran a bar called the Silver Slipper in Key West, Florida. Hemingway — famously a patron of many bars — became a regular at Russell's place. According to the Key West establishment's official history, Hemingway convinced Russell to change his own establishment's name from The Silver Slipper to Sloppy Joe's , just like the bar he knew in Havana. (Hemingway first visited Cuba in 1928, and had a lifelong love affair with the island.) Russell began serving a loose-meat sandwich as well. According to Donna Edwards, brand manager for the Sloppy Joe's in Key West, that menu item was at least partially inspired by the similar offering at the Florida restaurant's Cuban counterpart. But Russell thought to give the simple dish a catchy name.

"The Americanized version was born out of what was being served in Havana," Edwards told Mashable. "We took it and Americanized it by making it the Sloppy Joe and not just a loose-meat sandwich. But it's something that definitely developed from that idea." So what do you think — gospel truth or transnational urban legend? It's certainly more detailed than any other origin story out there. To help shed more light on the issue, we called in an expert. Competing myths Bee Wilson, the author of "Sandwich: A Global History," says it's hard to nail down the exact genesis of any sandwich, the Sloppy Joe included. "I found in particular that there would be competing myths for many of the great American sandwiches," Wilson told Mashable, of the research done for her book. Sloppy Joe's Bar in Havana, Cuba, flaunts its status as the world's first. Image: Sam Laird/Mashable "I think the confusion over origins is partly because people get so emotionally attached to particular sandwiches and come to associate them with particular delis and can't then countenance the idea that they might have actually first been eaten somewhere else," Wilson said via email.

After Fidel Castro and Ernesto "Che" Guevara led the Cuban revolution in 1959, Havana ceased to be a hotspot for carousing Americans. The Sloppy Joe's bar there closed soon after. Meanwhile, Russell's Key West joint has changed hands a few times. But today business is brisk and the Sloppy Joe is its most popular item. Edwards told Mashable that Sloppy Joe's goes through 20,000 pounds of ground beef per year while selling about 165 of its eponymous soggy sandwiches every day. Weep not for its Havana counterpart, however. A Sloppy Joe sandwich at Sloppy Joe's bar and restaurant in Havana, Cuba. Image: Sam Laird/Mashable After a long hiatus, the bar and restaurant was refurbished and reopened in 2013, on the same corner of Agramonte and Animas in what is now the heart of Havana's tourist district. It's owned by Habaguanex, a group that, true to modern Cuba's socialist identity, runs a host of tourism businesses in the capital while funneling their profits back into local social and infrastructure projects.

The Sloppy Joe's in Havana today is cleaner than the joint that earned its name nearly a century ago, but it's been restored to look like the hangout that was once frequented by the likes of Hemingway, Errol Flynn and Graham Greene. A long mahogany bar seats patrons before hundreds of bottles of liquor, most prominently Havana Club rum. Seated at more than a dozen tables, tourists sip cocktails and look at photos on their phones. On a recent trip to Havana, I visited the re-opened original Sloppy Joe's. I ordered, of course, the sandwich that's a classic memory from my American childhood. It came true to form, with saucy loose meat overwhelming two pieces of bread. Attached to a toothpick protruding from the top piece of bread was a miniature Cuban flag. BONUS: The sights and sounds of Cuba One of the Most Famous Places in Key West - Sloppy Joe's | Pier House Resort & Spa Famous patrons of Sloppy Joe’s Most famous of all the crowd at Sloppy Joe’s in its early years, Ernest Hemingway often frequented the bar with his friends, a rabble-rousing group lovingly dubbed “The Mob.” Members included Waldo Pierce, J.B.

Sullivan, Captain Eddie Saunders, as well Hemingway’s fishing buddy and owner of the bar himself, Joe Russell. Ernest Hemingway Lookalike Contest An annual tradition, the Hemingway Lookalike Contest takes place every year in mid-July, amid the riotous fun of the world-famous Hemingway Days Festival, celebrating the author’s birthday. The 34th edition takes place July 17-19th 2014, as throngs of white-bearded men fill the streets of Key West in honor of Papa. FAQs When was Sloppy Joe’s Founded? The infamous watering hole was founded the day Prohibition ended, on December 5th 1933. It’s since changed its name twice, and in 1937 moved across the street to its current location, but the rambunctious spirit of celebratory libations carries on. What kind of food do they serve? The menu includes Key West favorites like Caribbean conch, fresh Florida seafood, Cajun, and Latin American cuisine. Standouts include the fish tacos, smoked fish dip, and the famous namesake Sloppy Joe sandwich.

Map/Directions Driving Direction to Sloppy Joe's Key West From Why Stay at Pier House Resort & Spa? Full Service Spa key west sloppy joes Archives - Just A Platform Events Jul 14, 2015 Every year in the southernmost point in the US, Key West or the “Keys”, best known for its superb beaches, water sports and lively nightlife, holds its annual Hemingway Days to celebrate one of the great American writers Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway’s association with Key West began in the 1930s when he started spending his winters there and his summers in Wyoming. He would live in Key West for ten years and it was there that he wrote one of his most celebrated novels For Whom The Bells Toll, the story of a young American involved in the Spanish Civil War. (Image Bruce Tutem via Flickr) Image christopher.nelson.photography Island House Key West Visitors to Key West can visit Hemingway’s old house which was originally built in 1851. The house has furnishings from when Hemingway and his second wife Pauline lived there. Pauline was a keen collector of furniture and fittings from France and Spain while Hemingway had his art collection.

Around the house and grounds you can see also see the famous ‘extra toed’ (polydactyls) cats like the ones “Papa” you used to keep. Papa being the name Hemingway liked to be referred to rather than Ernest. Image jdeeringdavis via Flickr Sloppy Joe’s, marling fishing and the Running of The Bulls And so back to the annual “Hemingway Days” festival. One of the most popular events is always the Sloppy Joe’s Hemingway look-alike contest which draws a large number of white-bearded “Papa”entrants. Sloppy Joe’s bar was a favourite haunt of Hemingway who was well known to enjoy the occasional drink. Image J.Todd Poling via Flickr Other events included literary readings, the three-day Drambuie Key West Marlin Tournament (one of Hemingway’s passions was fishing and he had his own fishing boat Pilar) and a spoof of Spain’s Running of the Bulls featuring life-size fake bulls. (‘Hemingway journeyed to Pamplona [in Northern Spain] on nine occasions, the most prolific burst between 1923 and 1927, when he visited every year.

Each time he came for San Fermín, the city’s famed fiesta of bullfighting and brutality, drink and song.’ The Independent ) Another popular scheduled annual event is the awards ceremony for the renowned literary competition directed by author and Hemingway granddaughter Lorian Hemingway. In 2013 Scottish writer Carol Farrelly won the Lorian Hemingway short story competition beating over 1,000 submissions. Articles about Sloppy Joe - tribunedigital-orlandosentinel Hemingway Days begin July 16 in Key West Posted by Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel Arts Writer, July 3, 2013 Throughout the 1930s, Ernest Hemingway lived on the tiny island of Key West, writing now-classic works that included "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and "To Have and Have Not. " The Nobel Prize-winning author's legacy will be celebrated Tuesday through Sunday, July 16-21, with events saluting his literary prowess and vigorous Key West lifestyle.

Hemingway Days 2013 includes a popular look-alike contest, authors' readings, an offbeat "Running of the Bulls," a marlin tournament and the culmination of a short-story contest directed by author and Hemingway granddaughter Lorian Hemingway. Advertisement Sloppy Joe's To Reopen, But Bar Tab Worries Cuba May 15, 1994 Havana's famous Sloppy Joe's bar will reopen soon, 25 years after it closed, Cuban officials said Saturday.Sloppy Joe's was a must stop for Americans visiting Havana in the 1940s and '50s. But with the advent of the Cuban revolution, Sloppy Joe's became an anachronism, and American and other foreign tourists disappeared after the United States cut links with Havana in 1960.Cuban officials hope that one day Washington will loosen its economic embargo and once again allow U.S. citizens to visit and spend money in Cuba. TRAVEL Hemingways: Head to Key West June 23, 2012 I could never win Sloppy Joe's Ernest Hemingway Look-alike Contest. I'm pretty sure that he had better hair than I do.

Yet, somehow, as time has ravaged me, it seems that a vague Hemingway resemblance has crept into my profile. On a recent trek to the Upper Keys, I was able to exchange silent, knowing nods with other snowy-white bearded dudes. We look like we belong. Yeah, we're really cool guys down there. That will be especially true again this summer, during the annual Hemingway Days from July 17-22 in Key West . This year's edition celebrates the 75th anniversary of the author's novel "To Have and Have Not.

" In keeping with tradition, the event again features a look-alike contest to unfold in three rounds July 19, 20 and 21 at Sloppy Joe's (201 Duval St.) LOCAL Tammy Bakker's Recipe Touches Off Sloppy Joe Debate By United Press International, October 22, 1987 Tammy Faye Bakker has shared her sloppy joe recipe with telephone followers and it got a thumbs down from some denizens of the nation's top kitchens but raves from a ''white trash cooking'' fan.The wife of fallen PTL founder Jim Bakker has promised the recipe for weeks to callers on the Bakker's ''900'' pay-telephone line. Wednesday she revealed the ingredients -- ground beef, canned soup, ketchup and mustard.''It sounds revolting,'' said Craig Claiborne, food editor of The New York Times.

LOCAL Say hello to sloppy Joe's slim alter ego By Anne-Marie Hodges and Pam Brandon, Special to the Sentinel, October 3, 2007 Be a kid again -- lick your fingers and refuse to share this diva-licious version of sloppy Joes, the spicy, sweet goo spilling out of buttery toasted Cuban bread. Or pile it on an old-fashioned white bun for sloppy-joy time travel back to school days of lunchroom ladies and plastic trays. To curb calories, the fickle divas ditched sloppy Joe for sloppy Tom, a much leaner version of the retro classic with ground turkey instead of beef. (It was love at first bite.) Jalapeno gives a subtle jump-start to the savory flavors, and the molasses mellows it all with a dark sweetness. ENTERTAINMENT Joe Walsh, Dickie Betts Will Join Sloppy Joe's Jam By Jim Abbott of The Sentinel Staff, February 5, 1993 Guitarists Joe Walsh and Dickie Betts will be among the featured performers at Sloppy Joe's All-Star Jam, a grand-opening celebration Saturday at the new Sloppy Joe's nightspot in downtown Orlando.

Also on hand: Chris Anderson of the Outlaws, Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick, Stray Cats frontman Brian Setzer, Tommy Kiefer of Cinderella, Scorpions Matthias Jabs and Rudolf Schenker, AC/DC's Brian Johnson and Cliff Williams and Queensryche's Eddie Jackson and Michael Wilton. The music will start at 10 p.m. Admission: $5 at the door. ENTERTAINMENT Say Goodbye (or Hooray!) To Sloppy Joe's, Fat Tuesday's By M.F. Emmons, August 28, 1998 Just heard the news that Sloppy Joe's on Church Street is closing, to which I say:THANK GOD!Back in March when we started this little adventure column, somebody in Sentinel marketing thought it would be a swell idea to send me down to do a radio promotion there. While the guys from SHE 100.3 were a lot of fun - that Shark is a cutie-pie, don't let him fool you - the rest of the evening was appalling.

I have never been so demeaned, degraded and disgusted as I was by the general attitude toward women there - and believe me, it ain't easy to degrade or disgust me. I watched drunken young ladies participate in various tasteless bar games at the behest of the house DJ and thought, Honey, you are gonna be sooooo sorry when you wake up tomorrow. LOCAL Who let the goop dogs out? By Heather Mcpherson, Sentinel Food Editor, October 4, 2006 Goop. It's just not an appetizing word. Goop. It's just not something you think about when you're perusing a restaurant menu. Goop. It just doesn't fit the persona of a well-dressed television sports anchor. But make no mistake -- WESH-Channel 2's Pat Clarke is all about the goop. Goop dogs, that is. Goop dogs, which have a texture similar to sloppy Joes but are served on a hot dog bun, originated in the kitchen of Clarke's boyhood home in Colfax, Iowa. Like a sloppy Joe, a goop dog is essentially seasoned ground meat bathed in a slightly sweet chili sauce and ladled onto a thin blanket of cheese.

LOCAL Sloppy Joe's Has Tidy Tips For Success By Gwyneth K. Shaw of The Sentinel Staff, October 16, 1997 The secret to reviving a withered downtown is simple, the head of Sloppy Joe's restaurants said here Wednesday.''You need bars,'' Michael Halpern told a gathering of about 75 members of Florida Redevelopment Association and Florida MainStreet.''You need to get people into your downtown area at night,'' Halpern said during the closing speech for the two groups' annual conference. ''Restaurants are a good start, but a bar-and-restaurant mix is better.''Halpern is president of Sloppy Joe's, the Hemingway-inspired Key West landmark that serves 1 million customers a year.

TRAVEL On anyone's list: A stop at SoBe, beer in the Keys May 11, 2010 South Florida Be seen at SoBe (South Beach): It's internationally known as home to the decadent party lifestyle of the rich and famous, and while access to that scene is limited to most of us, you can still get a taste of what it's about by taking in Ocean Drive, home of the Versace mansion ("Casa Casuarina"), the Art Deco Gift Shop, the News Café, and nearby museums and art-deco architecture. An al fresco meal at the News Café (800 Ocean Drive; 305-538-6397; newscafe. ENTERTAINMENT Daytona Sloppy Joe's opens By Heather McPherson and FOOD, February 4, 2010 A new toast to Key West and Papa Hemingway is at the Ocean Walk Shoppes (250 N. Atlantic Ave.) in Daytona Beach. Executive Chef Erik Walter is heading up the kitchen. Get your grape on at WINEFEST Lakeridge Winery & Vineyards will host WINEFEST Feb.

19-21 in Clermont . The $2 admission fee benefits the South Lake Chamber of Commerce. Parking is free. For details, check out lakeridgewinery.com or call 1-800-768-9463. LOCAL Road Doesn't Go On Forever, But Party Never Ends Here By Lisa Roberts, Special to the Sentinel, May 18, 2008 Most of Key West's action centers on Duval Street, which cuts across the island from the Gulf to the Atlantic. The epicenter? Head for North Duval in Old Town, where tourists spilling out of cruise ships meet the crowds that hopscotched islands via U.S. Highway 1. Any weekday is an excuse for revelry, but things really heat up on the weekends, with partygoers crowding the sidewalks outside the flung-open doors of bars such as the cavernous Sloppy Joe's...

LOCAL Say hello to sloppy Joe's slim alter ego By Anne-Marie Hodges and Pam Brandon, Special to the Sentinel, October 3, 2007 Be a kid again -- lick your fingers and refuse to share this diva-licious version of sloppy Joes, the spicy, sweet goo spilling out of buttery toasted Cuban bread. Or pile it on an old-fashioned white bun for sloppy-joy time travel back to school days of lunchroom ladies and plastic trays. To curb calories, the fickle divas ditched sloppy Joe for sloppy Tom, a much leaner version of the retro classic with ground turkey instead of beef. (It was love at first bite.) Jalapeno gives a subtle jump-start to the savory flavors, and the molasses mellows it all with a dark sweetness. LOCAL Who let the goop dogs out? By Heather Mcpherson, Sentinel Food Editor, October 4, 2006 Goop. It's just not an appetizing word. Goop. It's just not something you think about when you're perusing a restaurant menu. Goop. It just doesn't fit the persona of a well-dressed television sports anchor.

But make no mistake -- WESH-Channel 2's Pat Clarke is all about the goop. Goop dogs, that is. Goop dogs, which have a texture similar to sloppy Joes but are served on a hot dog bun, originated in the kitchen of Clarke's boyhood home in Colfax, Iowa. Like a sloppy Joe, a goop dog is essentially seasoned ground meat bathed in a slightly sweet chili sauce and ladled onto a thin blanket of cheese. LOCAL Old Bar Wants Out Of Smoke Ban By Linda Kleindienst, Tallahassee Bureau, March 29, 2005 TALLAHASSEE -- Sloppy Joe's might have been Ernest Hemingway's favorite bar, but the state says the Key West landmark is a restaurant, which makes it illegal to light up a smoke there. Owners of the national historic landmark are hoping for a reprieve, asking the Legislature to redefine what it considers a "stand-alone bar" and exempt their 72-year-old establishment from the state's constitutional smoking ban. The state law allows smoking in bars where no more than 10 percent of the revenue comes from food sales and where the business is devoted predominantly to selling alcoholic beverages.

BUSINESS Restaurants February 1, 1996 F.T./S.J. HONOLULU L.P., doing business as Fat Tuesday and Sloppy Joe's, has filed for reorganization and protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. The affected Fat Tuesday and Sloppy Joe's outlets are in Honolulu and the filing does not involve similar outlets in downtown Orlando, said attorney Peter Hill, who filed the petition for the Orlando-based partnership. LOCAL Bars Scuffle Over Papa's Legend By Ann W. O'Neill, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, July 25, 2004 KEY WEST -- There is textbook history, and there is bar-stool history. Here in the Conch Republic, the difference can mean big dollars. And so, the corporate owners of the upscale watering hole Sloppy Joe's Bar are taking the corporate owners of the decidedly earthier Captain Tony's Saloon to court. At issue: Who can lay claim to being the original Sloppy Joe's -- and bragging rights to a piece of Ernest Hemingway's legend. In the lawsuit, filed July 7 in U.S.

District Court here, Sloppy Joe's accused Captain Tony's of infringing on its trademark. Bars Scuffle Over Papa's Legend By Ann W. O'Neill, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, July 25, 2004 KEY WEST -- There is textbook history, and there is bar-stool history. Here in the Conch Republic, the difference can mean big dollars. And so, the corporate owners of the upscale watering hole Sloppy Joe's Bar are taking the corporate owners of the decidedly earthier Captain Tony's Saloon to court. At issue: Who can lay claim to being the original Sloppy Joe's -- and bragging rights to a piece of Ernest Hemingway's legend. In the lawsuit, filed July 7 in U.S. District Court here, Sloppy Joe's accused Captain Tony's of infringing on its trademark. LOCAL Bars Tug For Bragging Right July 20, 2004 KEY WEST -- In a dispute fitting of an Ernest Hemingway novel, two bars near the hard-drinking author's former home are fighting over rights to use the name of his old watering hole. But this bar brawl is taking place in court.

Sloppy Joe's Bar and Captain Tony's Saloon are half a block from each other in Key West, and both claim Hemingway used to drink there. From 1933 to 1937, Hemingway's friend "Sloppy Joe" Russell ran a bar out of a former city morgue where Captain Tony's now is located. Martha Gellhorn: the person and the journalist - Cliomuse.com Cliomuse.com Rogue One & World War 2 Martha Gellhorn: the Woman and the Journalist The real -life Gellhorn on the right; the more glamorous movie version on the left. Philip Kaufman's 2012 movie "Hemingway & Gellhorn" has rekindled interest in one of the 20th Century's leading journalists. Martha Gellhorn's Fame Gellhorn's troubled marriage to Ernest Hemingway meant that for much of her life she had to overcome being regarded as what she once called a "footnote" in the biography of the famed author.

She insisted on being regarded as a fine writer and journalist in her own right, irrespective of her relationship with Hemingway whom talents as a person, lover and author she decried after their divorce. During the last two decades she has been lionized as a pioneering female journalist overcoming prejudice and preconceptions and as one of the best of the twentieth century's war correspondents. And the emphasis in her reportage on ordinary people and their sufferings in conflcts was hardly pioneering; she was following a trail blazed by earlier female foreign correspondents. Gellhorn's journalism made no pretense at objectivity; some of it resembled her political and personal judgements, infused with a bitter and disconcerting hatred and maliciousness. Gellhorn and Hemingway: the novelist quickly became aware of Gellhorn's determination, intelligence and audacity as a journalist and felt his own status and self-image to be under threat. Gellhorn at Cassino, Italy, during World War 2. Gellhorn later in life. Although she had two marriages and many liaisons,she was at heart a solitary person, restless and terrified of being bored. Martha Gellhorn: the early years The young Gellhorn.

Gellhorn was born in 1908 into an educated and affluent family in St Louis. Her part-Jewish father was a gynecologist; both he and his wife Edna had liberal ideas on politics, parenthood, sex and education. Edna was a prominent suffragette in St .Louis. Both parents helped found a coeducational school, John Burroughs School, based on equal treatment of all students, regardless of gender. After attending this institution,and writing for its magazine, she went to Bryn Mawr College in 1927, two years behind Kathryn Hepburn. However, She failed several courses and did not graduate, claiming that the college "bored" her. Instead, she decided to pursue a career as a journalist. For a few months Gellhorn worked as the sole female reporter for the Albany Times Union. This job included 'the police beat', where she spent time examining corpses in the morgue in between evading the attentions of the city editor and earning the nickname "the blonde peril". She eventually based her first novel, What Made Pursuit, on her six months there.

After six months she went back to St.Louis, but found that city -like Bryn Mawr and Albany too conventional and confining. She decided to go to Paris. Martha Gellhorn in Paris In 1930 Martha arrived in Paris ( acuity she had first visited when younger) with a typewriter, $75 and a determination to be a foreign correspondent.. Her first attempt to get cheap accommodation ended with her getting a room in a brothel. Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises, published four years earlier, had encouraged countless would-be American authors to do what Gellhorn was attempting - to gain the intellectual and social stimulation that would provide the insight and background necessary to produce another literary masterpiece. She eventually gained work at the United Press Bureau in Paris. She soon formed a liaison with a left-wing journalist Bertrand de Jouvenel, famous for having been seduced as a youth by the much older writer Collette. Jouvenel's wife would not grant a divorce. Gellhorn left him for a time and she followed her usual pattern of dealing with a crisis by retreating to her family home in St. Louis.

She had an abortion, but the relationship with de Jouvenel was later resumed intermittently. In 1936 her father -who disapproved of that relationship died in 1936. Gellhorn - or "Rabbit", as de Jouvenel called her. Bertrand de Jouvenel, Gellhorn's lover in Paris during the 1920s. She called him "Smuf". Gellhorn and Hemingway Meet In the movie, the pair meet cute at Sloppy Joes bar in Key West. The real Sloppy Joe's bar in the 1930s. Inspired by Hemingway's advice (at least in the movie) Gellhorn seeks to improve her journalistic techniques. Gellhorn's meeting with Hemingway at Sloppy Joe's Bar in Key West, Florida, in late 1936 has become famous, but some accounts of the meeting and its immediate consequences are mythical rather than historical. * Sloppy Joe's Bar did exist (it still does, and holds an annual Hemingway look-alike contest) and Hemingway was a regualr patron there for a time. Its owner was one of Hemingway's fishing companions.

* Gellhorn and Hemingway did indeed first meet in Sloppy Joe's Bar but under mundane circusmstances. Gellhorn's father had died in 1936 and her mother decided to spend Christmas with her two younger sons in Florida. Martha joined them in Key West and the four met Hemingway when they visited the bar, a local tourist attraction. Hemingway initially assumed that Martha and her younger brother were lovers. Hemingway and the Gellhorns had a conversation; some days later he took them to his home to meet his wife Pauline and his sons. Hemingway and Gellhorn had several meetings in which they discussed literature, writing and international politics, especially the Spanish civil war • The pair's relationship was friendly but no more; the pair didn't sleep together until the next year in Madrid. * Gellhorn was not a novice or would-be author when she met Hemingway in Key West. Several of her articles had been published, her recent non-fiction book (The Trouble I've Seen) about the social and economic impact of the depression on Americans had received excellent reviews, and she had already written one novel and was working on another.

Hemingway and Gellhorn: the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 Gellhorn in Spain, c.1937-8. Hemingway in combat stance, posing sometime during the civil war. Martha Gellhorn with Hemingway (back to camera) soemwhere in Spain 1937-8 (Source: EH02981P ERnest Hemingway Collection, J.F.Kennedy Memorial Library, Boston). Mikhail Koltzov (left, profile) -'Pravda' reporter, Russian spy, Stalin's emissary, adviser to Republican forces. Madrid, 1938. Hemingway with other war correspondents - from left, U.S. poet Langston Hughes, Mikhail Kotzov, Hemingway and Nicole Guillen. War as journalistic adventure in "Hemingway & Gellhorn". While Gellhorn and Hemingway were the most celebrated of all the war correspondents who covered the Spanish civil war, there were many others of various nationalities. As Hugh Thomas, the great historian of the conflict wrote: "the '30s were the golden age of the foreign correspondent.

From the end of July,1936 and for two years and a half, it was usual to find the greatest world reporters to the south of the Pyrenees". Gellhorn went to Spain in 1936 to cover the war for Colliers magazine and reunited with Hemingway. He advised her to focus on writing about the effects of war on civilians -good advice, for Gellhorn's reporting was notoriously weak and unconvincing on political and military matters. Nuance and subtlety were not her strong points. The pair rapidly became a celebrity couple as they followed the war, much to the amusement and sometimes jealousy of fellow correspondents. Neither author attempted impartiality; each was a fervent supporter of the Republicans and bitter opponents of the fascist Franco rebels. (Hemingway's wife,Pauline, favoured Franco's side).They ignored evidence of atrocities committed by the Republican side, and the cynical exploitation and betrayal of youthful idealism by communists acting under orders from Stalin and the NKVD. Inevitably, these two self-regarding and competitive egos were incompatible. Each was jealous of the other's literary and public status.

Both longed for public attention yet resented the restrictions that imposed on their personal and literary careers. By 1937 the relationship had become public knowledge in the USA. Before long Pauline was in Paris confronting Hemingway. And Martha was circulating details of Ernest's sexual, psychological and literary shortcomings. Goda Taro with Robert Capa in Spain. Gellhorn (2nd from right) with Virginia Cowles, a British journalist -and a much more nyanced and accurate reporter than Gellhorn. Gellhorn and Hemingway's travels in Spain was marked by bickering, jealousy and celebrity grandstanding - and very infrequent sex. Not quite ther impression givern by "Hemingway & Gellhorn". Gellhorn Sours on Hemingway " My whole memory of sex with Ernest is the invention of excuses, and failing that, the hope that it would soon be over".

Letter from Gellhorn, , cited Caroline Moorhead, Gellhorn: a Twentieth Century Life (New York,2003),135-6 Gellhorn and Hemingway at the Congress of American Writers, Carnegie Hall, 1937 "About 10:30 all the foreign correspondents marched on [stage], each one with his private blonde, led by Ernest and Miss Gellhorn, who had been through hell in Spain and came shivering on in a silver fox cape chin-up.... Ernest gave a good speech....and his sum total was that ...writers ought to all go to war and get killed and if they didn't they were a big sissy". Poet and playwright Dawn Powell, an acute observer of the American cultural scene, mocks the two celebrity writers at the Congress Gelhorn and Hemingway: a wider war, 1939-1945 Gellhorn (left) in China. Gellhorn and Hemingway pose with Chinese government officials during the war. "Another" is of course Hemingway, identified in these reminiscences about Gellhorn's journalistic travels as "UC" - Unwilling Companion. The recently married couple.

In 1938 Collier's sent Gellhorn on assignment, not to Spain, but to other parts of Europe to report on reactions to a possible war. While Hemingway went back to Pauline and his children at Key West, Gellhorn covered France and Czechoslovakia at the time of the Sudetenland crisis. In November 1939 she went to Finland for Collier's, arriving in time for the Russian invasion and visiting the front lines. However, she left Finland remarkably quickly - claiming to be 'bored' - and met Hemingway (who was writing For Whom the Bell Tolls) in Cuba in January. Later that year Bells was published to great critical and financial success. At the same time his marriage with Pauline ended in divorce on uncontested grounds of desertion. Martha and Ernest married on 21 November in Wyoming. But she wanted to get back to the war and accepted a Collier's magazine assignment to go to the Far East. Hemingway, enjoying his increased wealth and fame, reluctantly agreed to accompnay her for part of the trip and do his own reporting for PM magazine. Ther pair went to Hong Kong and then China.

When American entered the war after Pearl Harbor, Hemingway became increasingly preoccupied with his boat, the Pilar which he used for fishing and partying with his friends, and hunting Axis submarines. Martha mocked these grandiose military activities, his messy appearance and his increasing drunkenness, egotism and financial extravagance. She accepted Collier's offer to report on the war in Europe aHemingway was content to stay in Cuba, drinking and hunting (unsuccessfully) submarines. Gellhorn arrived in London in the fall of 1943; most of her time there she lived in the comfort of the Dorchester Hotel.Despite claims to the contrary, she was accredited as a war correspondent and wore the official army uniform of one, as well as provided with the honorary rank of captain. As a woman correspondent, though, she was subject to restrictions on travel and access. After some months she went to Italy,reported on the vicious struggle around Cassino, and then went back to Cuba and an indignant Hemingway. "Are you a war correspondent or my wife?" he cabled her.

She found a bitter, boastful, alcoholic Hemingway, who had written nothing of worth for three or four years, and who was humiliated by the complete failure of his sub-hunting exploits and jealous of Martha. Then he decided to go to Europe to write for Collier's about the war, and was given status senior to Gellhorn.He travelled by RAF plane; Martha had to travel on a freighter in a convoy.She arrived to find Hemingway injured in hospital after a car accident, and showed scant sympathy. She also showed little enthusiasm for his routine of constant partying with old and new journalist friends, including an attractive Time reporter, Mary Welsh who also stayed at the Dorchester and whose company Hemingway increasingly sought. With the arrival of D-Day, Gellhorn had to smuggle herself on board a hospital ship, helping with casualties on invasion day and going ashore at Omaha beach at night with medical teams. Hemingway never made it to the beach, although he travelled on a landing craft and sent back reports full of bravado.

Gellhorn then switched to reporting on the Italian campaign and then went to liberated Paris, where Hemingway was esconced at the Ritz - which he claimed to have personally liberated - with Mary Welsh in a room close by. Martha stayed at the Lincoln. "Have torn up my tickets on her" Hemingway wrote to his son. He no longer bothered writing, having too good a time drinking and boasting with his friends. Martha followed the Allied armies into Belgium and Holland. She returned to Paris to demand a divorce, and finalized matters in London, after which they never met again. Hemingway wrote to his editor: "Funny how it should take one war to start a woman in your damn heart and another to finish her". Martha told her mother that Hemingway was "a loathsome human being". Hemingway in London, 1944, the Dorchester Hotel.By now his reportage was bloated and boastful. Some months after this photo he gave the typewriter away and virtually ceased writing for a time. Martha Gellhorn: life after Hemingway Gellhorn with Virginia Cowles.

After the final split with Hemingway, Gellhorn vigorously pursued her journalistic career for several more decades.She continued her coverage of the concluding stage of the European war, making full use of her liason with the dashing Gen. James Gavin, commander of the 82nd Airborne. When Germany surrendered she was in Dachau, an experience which left her permanently disillusioned with humanity and a fervent supporter of Israel. From then on she went to almost every theatre of conflict in the postwar world, from Indo-China to the Six Day War. She co-wrote with Virginia Cowles, a fellow war correspondent, a light comedy Love Goes to Pres, which proved popular in London but not New York. She also wrote several novels, such as The Wine of Astonishment and The Lowest Trees Have Tops (about McCarthyism) and books of reportage and travel. In 1949 she adopted an Italian boy, Sandy, but soon left him in the care of relatives. Their relationship turned bitter. When he was twenty she told him in a letter that "You are a poor and stupid little fellow in my eyes.

I'd be so damned ashamed to be you, I'd want to jump off a cliff." She continued to have numerous affairs and in 1954 married a Time managing editor, divorcing a decade later. As she got older Gellhorn seemed to get more embittered. She surrounded herself with a set of drinking and gossiping friends -"chums" - much as Hemingway had done in Paris, Key West, Cuba, London and Paris. Gellhorn, like Hemingway, committed suicide. Almost blind, in pain, deeply depressed, she drank poison. Driving Downtown - Key Wests Popular Strip - Key West Florida USA - YouTube Driving Downtown - Key Wests Popular Strip - Key West Florida USA Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Jul 28, 2016 Driving Downtown Streets - Duval Street - Key West Florida USA - Episode 26. Starting Point: Duval Street & United Street - .

Duval Street (/ˈduvəhl/) is a famous downtown commercial zoned street in Key West, Florida, running north and south from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean. From shore to shore, the street is just over 1.25 miles in length. It is named for William Pope Duval, the first territorial governor of Florida. Duval Street was designated a “Great Street” in 2012 by the American Planning Association.[1] The beautiful Bahamian and Spanish influenced Victorian Mansions of Duval Street have been well preserved through local preservation efforts starting in the 1960s. On the Atlantic Ocean end of Duval Street there is a mix of early Key West Victorian mansions and bungalows’ dotting the neighborhood. Art galleries, boutiques, inns and Bodega’s line the wide sidewalks. Although this end of Duval is more residential and less filled with tourists, the sidewalks still bustle with activity. Near the southern terminus of Duval Street is the buoy marker for the southernmost spot in the United States not far from the southernmost House, a striking Victorian architecture mansion built in 1896. A favorite of both Harry S.

Truman and author Ernest Hemingway, the building was restored to its formal beauty and opulence with a $3 million renovation in 1996. Duval Street well represents the cultural influence of Key West’s proximity and cultural ties to Cuba. Many Cubans immigrated to the area beginning in the late 1860s. At one time, the many cigar stores on Duval gave the city the moniker “Cigar City USA.” There are many pleasant outdoor cafes to enjoy another Cubano influenced product, “Cuban Coffee”, which is espresso made from roasted Cuban Coffee beans with a heavy dose of sugar. At the north end, tourists from the cruise ships that dock at the Westin harbor complex, Mole pier or Mallory Square are often seen traversing Duval Street's many shops [1] in the afternoon looking for souvenir trinkets and T-shirts. The streets are congested with Pedi cabs, trollies, bikes, mopeds, cars, and the Conch Train all adding to the touristy feel of this heavily visited end of Duval. Near the northern end of the street is Mallory Square. Historic Mallory Square is the center of Key West’s waterfront.

The City of Key West and Duval Street share their beginning along this deep harbor waterfront. On certain nights, the gulf shores of Duval Street often vibrate with a carnival like atmosphere that lasts until dawn and beyond. In fact, the ritual has a name known to tourists and residents as the “Duval Pub Crawl.” Duval is the location of many famous restaurants and bars, including Sloppy Joe's, Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville, which is the original, Fogarty's Restaurant, Bar and Bakery, "The Flying Monkeys Bar", The Bull and Whistle, Rick's Cafe and Irish Kevin's bar. Tour outlets book the “Duval Pub Crawl” activity and provide knowledgeable guidance for the tourist wishing to visit and imbibe at the famous drinking establishments, for a fee. A 1967 National Park Service survey of Historic American Buildings designated 18 buildings as historic. A full six blocks were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. Further protection for this historically significant street has been created through the City’s, “Historic Architecture Guidelines,” approved in 2000, which sets standards for construction on Duval Street.

Question: Sloppy Joe's Bar in Key West Florida became famous for its association with which American author
Answer: Ernest Hemingway